Film Commentary by Alex Good

Quiz the twentieth: Timestamped (Part one)

Usually just a note to tell the audience when and where they are (though they can also give weather reports), on-screen timestamps are a handy device in every filmmaker’s toolbox. But do the following names and dates make identifying the movies they appear in any easier?

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The most frustrating of all. This time, it’s complete guess work.
01) Return of the Living Dead
02) Some Like It Hot
04) Journey to the Center of the Earth
09) Vanishing Point
14) The Amityville Horror
15) Black Hawk Down
22) Friday the 13th
24) Psycho

Thanks, some might say I’m living it. Many of these frames are amusing even if I don’t recognize them. “1858 — two years before the civil war.” Well, duh. “France 1483” strikes me as funny for some reason — maybe the stone lettering. “The West — 1867.” Yep, that looks like “the west.” Good choices, for aesthetic reasons, quite aside from having to guess what they are.